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Okay bear with me on this :
I have an O2 wireless box in the lounge which has been connected for the last 5-6 months to the telephone socket in there, wirelessly connected to my laptop without any problems (normal speeds of around 4-5mb).
Anyway, today I got round to building my new pc with windows 7 which is in the downstairs garden room (where the master socket is). I decided to move the router down there and plug it in via the ethernet to the back of the pc.
Initially there were some random connection problems, but after a couple of phone calls to O2 it seemed to sort itself out (seemed to be a problem with the router syncing). No sooner had I got off the phone and I headed over to AMD to get the latest drivers for the 5850 and noticed browsing was pretty slow. Started downloading the drivers which were maxing out at 15kb/s and tried a few other sites as well with the same results. I got back on the phone to them and they ran a few line tests which said the line was 5mb but for some unknown reason was now syncing at 50kb/s - sure enough I tested the download again and it was slightly improved at 50kb/s. The guy said he wasn't sure why it was doing it but should sort itself out in the next couple of hours, well...it hasn't.
I've now put everything back in case it was a faulty main socket (router back upstairs, laptop is connected wirelessly and new pc is connected wirelessly too). The same low speeds still apply, the strange thing is that I was getting 4mb downloads just before I decided to move the router, I don't see why moving it would limit the speed? If anyone can help would be much appreciated - I want to get Left 4 Dead put on + updates so I can test my new 5850!
I have an O2 wireless box in the lounge which has been connected for the last 5-6 months to the telephone socket in there, wirelessly connected to my laptop without any problems (normal speeds of around 4-5mb).
Anyway, today I got round to building my new pc with windows 7 which is in the downstairs garden room (where the master socket is). I decided to move the router down there and plug it in via the ethernet to the back of the pc.
Initially there were some random connection problems, but after a couple of phone calls to O2 it seemed to sort itself out (seemed to be a problem with the router syncing). No sooner had I got off the phone and I headed over to AMD to get the latest drivers for the 5850 and noticed browsing was pretty slow. Started downloading the drivers which were maxing out at 15kb/s and tried a few other sites as well with the same results. I got back on the phone to them and they ran a few line tests which said the line was 5mb but for some unknown reason was now syncing at 50kb/s - sure enough I tested the download again and it was slightly improved at 50kb/s. The guy said he wasn't sure why it was doing it but should sort itself out in the next couple of hours, well...it hasn't.
I've now put everything back in case it was a faulty main socket (router back upstairs, laptop is connected wirelessly and new pc is connected wirelessly too). The same low speeds still apply, the strange thing is that I was getting 4mb downloads just before I decided to move the router, I don't see why moving it would limit the speed? If anyone can help would be much appreciated - I want to get Left 4 Dead put on + updates so I can test my new 5850!
